July 27 + 28

24 Hours.
47 classes.
1 Light.
Infinite Ripples.

Ripples of Light is YSI's yearly celebration of Touching the Diamond World. This year, we will host a 24-hour relay of half-hour long classes  with philosophy, meditation and asana teachings from YSI and other Worldview Organizations.

Join any or all of the 49 classes in dedicated practice to honor the moment our Teacher saw emptiness directly and jump into the ocean of emptiness to cause a ripple that reverberates through the world!

What you get:

• Zoom access to 24 hours of practices focused on Touching the Diamond World through the 8 limbs of yoga
• Attend all 49 classes or any of the 30 minute classes. Classes begin at 8:00am NY on July 27 and end at 9:00am NY on July 28
• Schedule of classes on July 27 + 28 will be available in your student dashboard + Telegram Group Chat
• Community chat with the YSI global community and easy access to links + schedule 

Course Description:

This offering is inspired by the third Quiet Retreat Teaching from Geshe Michael:

"You drop the good karma in a quiet pond and then the ripples start to go out... They touch your teachers in the heart... and the teachers will keep coming to you, higher and higher."

Imagine a wave of intentional practice rippling across the globe—hour by hour, hand to hand, heart to heart.

What do people want?  Change.  Not necessarily a new car or a new job.  But some deep fundamental change that allows them to see the world from a profoundly different perspective. One that leaves them empowered, connected, and with an optimistic outlook and vision for the future. To facilitate this change, there is no experience as transformative as directly perceiving truth.  We call this experience Touching the Diamond World.

On July 28th, 1975, Geshe Michael had a transformative experience and initiated what has now been a 50+ year teaching career, during which he has taught hundreds of thousands of students worldwide, thousands of classes and translated more pages of texts than perhaps anyone since Je Tsongkhapa, 500 years ago.

These teachings have been made accessible through Geshe Michael's 50+ Worldview Organizations - various institutes, programs, retreat centers, publishers and clubs with one purpose in mind: help others Touch the Diamond World.

 To honor this day and this experience, we offer classes that will guide students through the 8-limb path outlined in the Yoga Sutra, the essential text on yoga philosophy. This framework is fundamental to YSI’s teachings on yoga as it was designed to bring practitioners to this same transformative experience.  

Over a 24-hour period, YSI teachers will join leaders from around the world in facilitating a day to see emptiness directly.  To start the relay, we will begin with the first two of the 8 limbs: a celebration of our good actions, and practices to help us deal with our missteps along the way. YSI Instructors will continue with asana (physical postures), pranayama (breathing practices), pratyahara (preparing for meditation), and then the meditation itself.  

Connie O’Brien will then give us the instructions on Touching the Diamond World and lead us into a meditation with that goal in mind.

Throughout the rest of the relay, teachers from around the world will host yoga, meditation, and philosophy sessions, guiding the international community to the Diamond World.

There is one last crucial point.  For any of this to work, we must plant the seeds for success by helping others.  This is the price of admission. So here's your homework, if you choose to accept it: register for this class and commit to do 5 specific acts of kindness for others. We will dedicate these acts at our first class, so that everyone can have their highest dreams fulfilled, and we are all able to Touch the Diamond World.